CARNIVAL

On Friday, May 6th, my school put on an amazing carnival. Since I had to work it, Lee and my mom brought the boys to the carnival. Both Tyler and Brady had an absolute blast and created full exhaustion for my mom and Lee. I had one restroom break, where I went to find them and watch them in action for a bit. The smiles and happiness on their faces was great to see and only made me wish that I could continue to spend time with them while they went around to all the games. Unfortunately, I had to get back to work! Lee, my mom, Tyler, and Brady came home with a sheet cake and cupcakes from the cake walk, a goldfish, and plenty of little 'toys' (junk.) Tyler still knows exactly what he and Brady won that night and which classroom he won it in. His memory is absolutely amazing! The fish that we brought home was creatively named Nemo. Nemo has since past and we have boughten two new ones. That will come in a seperate post. :)

They enjoyed going down the blow up slide.
Here's Tyler doing a bean bag toss.

And Brady doing the bean bag toss.

Brady 'cheesing' after he won some play-doh.

What a great night that we all got to be a part of. I am always so thankful for everything that our boys get to experience. We do all that we can to make their hearts full of love and happiness.

BOYS

These two little boys are our everything! They are amazing and love to spend their time with each other. They also love to pester one another, but they are great friends! We love to spend our time watching them play and interact with one another. They are wonderful and we are very lucky that we have them to spoil with our love!

EASTER

We were lucky enough to celebrate Easter two weekends in a row and the boys loved every minute of it! Last weekend, we had good food, church, and an Easter egg hunt at our house, with the Easter Bunny making a visit, and celebrating with my mom, Josh, and Liz. And just this past weekend, we had Lee's parents in town to have good food, church, an Easter Egg hunt at church, and another visit from the Easter Bunny. We are very thankful for both weekends that we were able to spend with family. The boys love all the attention!

Our family after the Easter Egg Hunt at Church on Easter morning. Again, 3 out 4 looking at the camera is as good as we're going to get!
The kids on Easter morning after the Egg Hunt. We got them to stand there, by telling them to scratch their backs on the tree like an animal. It worked and they had fun doing it! :)

This was Easter morning's Egg Hunt, so Brady had figured out from the weekend before that he really only needed a couple eggs and then he could just stop and eat the candy. So here he is enjoying a treat while the other's are still running around for eggs.

Tyler's full blown sprint to get Easter Eggs.

One of the few that Brady actually picked up.

Brady with his Pez dispenser from the Easter Bunny.

And Tyler with his Pez dispenser.

The Easter Bunny had come while we were at Church Easter morning. Here's the boys checking out their goods from the Easter Bunny.

New swimming pool, some water guns, candy, new movie, and some "stuff" from the dollar aisle at Target! They LOVED it!

The weekend before when we celebrated with my mom, Josh, and Liz. Here's Grandma pushing Brady on the swing, and Tyler's "showing" Josh how he can do pull-ups on the bars. With no help from Josh at all! :)

The first Egg hunt in the back yard.

Here's Brady after he realized that their was candy inside the eggs. Egg hunt is now over!

The boys got Bubble guns from Grandma Mary's Easter Bunny.

Checking out their goods from Grandma Mary's Easter Bunny.

Pirate water table, Bubble guns, outfits, candy, snakes, lizards, body wash, and on and on. Again, they loved it all!

Dying Easter eggs was quite the adventure this year. I remember how last year we had Brady in his little activity area to watch us. It was much more difficult with the both of them this year! But, again, they had a blast and they were so proud of their colored eggs!

SPRINKLER IN APRIL

A couple weekends ago, after we got home from Ava's dance recital, we got to spend alot of time outside. Being 90 degrees, it was very rare weather for April! We got the sprinkler out and Tyler had a blast running through it, while Brady was still a little hesitant. I'm sure it will only take another time or two until Brady is in there with Tyler, as Brady is completely fearless!

AVA'S DANCE

Little Ava had a dance recital a couple weekends ago. She had invited myself and Tyler to come watch. Even though she doesn't show it or say it to Tyler, she really loves the little guy and was ecstatic that he was coming to watch her dance. Ava was in one dance and did a fabulous job! Tyler did as Tyler always does when we are out and attending something new, and that is to just sit back, watch, and soak it all in. The auditorium was extremely hot and the poor kid was sweating and watching a bunch of girls do dances that he didn't even know, but he still wouldn't leave the auditorium. I had asked him a couple times if he wanted to leave and he replied back with 'no' each time. After the recital, Tyler gave Ava a movie for a job well done and then we all headed to my Aunt and Uncles for dessert. It was a great Sunday afternoon spent watching a future dance star! Tyler actually really did enjoy the performance and loves Ava to pieces! This picture is of Tyler, my cousin Heather, and Val's little girl, Ava.
Tyler and Brady both love to 'tap dance' on the kitchen floor when they have their shoes on. Uh-oh! We might have some dancers in our home. I guess they did learn from watching Lee and I during our dance parties, so they are bound to be great dancers!

RANDOM PHOTOS

Here's some random pictures that were taken over the week while Lee was out in Oregon for work.

Depending on the day Tyler can pose for a picture quite well!

This is my favorite pose of his!

Here's Brady showing his great 'cheese' of a smile. Such a cutie!

We have special picnics in the living room every so often. This was a morning that we were able to have a breakfast picnic before leaving for daycare/work. That doesn't happen very often!

Brady could go down the slide all day long!!!

I wanted to get a picture of Tyler, Brady, and I so that I could send it to Lee while he was away. Brady absolutely did not want to take a picture with us! Here he is pouting under the slide after we tried to get him in a picture with us.

This is the best picture we got of the three of us. As you can see, Brady really didn't want to stop playing to get his picture taken!

Tyler is also a big fan of the slide.

Another thing that Brady could do all day long is swing! We are loving nice weather!!!

HOWDY!

Here's the little cowboy! He only enjoys dressing up as a cowboy because of Woody from Toy Story. He doesn't last long in the boots, as he thinks that they are pretty uncomfortable.